(Portraits of the Protestant Reformers) Joannes Balaeus (John Bale).

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Henricus Hondius the Elder (Portraits of the Protestant Reformers) Joannes Balaeus (John Bale). (The Hague, c. 1610) Copper engravings 170x120mm

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Description

Small, early portraits of the heroes of the Protestant Reformation.

An ex-Carmelite friar (1495-1563), who rejected Catholicism, he was a curate in Suffolk and a radical evangelical preacher in London in the 1530s.